Amazon is indeed building a new warehouse in Sioux Falls, promising to hire 1,000 workers and giving our elected leaders something to brag about: Sen. John…
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In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
Don’t forget, Dusty: if you can’t get your Congressional colleagues to agree on restoring federal coronavirus relief measures, you’re killing more Americans: The lack of…
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
Our wise vote to raise and index the minimum wage in 2014 will give our lowest-earning workers a little more coronavirus stimulus in 2021. According…
Donald Trump’s example notwithstanding, acting in your self-interest isn’t always bad. For instance, if you’re still trying to figure out for whom to cast your…
More on the K-shaped recovery: jobs that pay better wages are more likely to facilitate telework than the jobs on the frontline of the pandemic…
Donald Trump is, in the most generous interpretation, exaggerating when he claims to have delivered “the greatest economy in the history of our country“: Trump…
Republicans have been holding up additional coronavirus relief by demanding that we give businesses even more liability protections from coronavirus-related claims. But additional liability protections…
Pramod Acharya of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reads the CDC’s August report on the early coronavirus outbreak at Smithfield Foods and finds that…